Shana Morgan reported, “Cathy McGowan has declared she can win the seat of Indi by a bigger margin than in 2013. The independent, who beat Sophie Mirabella by just 439 votes last time around, had been cautious in saying she believed the poll would be tight again.”: Cathy McGowan says winning margin to grow.

Tanya Plibersek and the sleeper issue

Tom Allard reported, “Frustration, she says, is mounting about the slowing of internet speeds as the telecommunications network gets overloaded as households’ consumption of data rises dramatically. Dubbed the “Netflix effect”, the amount of data sucked through the copper-based cable network, much of it driven by streaming services such as Netflix and Stan, has doubled in the past year or so, and continues to rise at record rates.”: Tanya Plibersek and the sleeper issue of the election campaign.

Liberal Party sleight of hand

Adam Gartrell reported, “Privacy campaigners have accused the Liberal Party of an “appalling” sleight of hand for using what looks deceptively like an official government website to harvest people’s personal information. The Australian Privacy Foundation’s David Vaile says the website, which spruiks the government’s $840 million PaTH to Jobs internship program, appears to be deliberately misleading.”: Liberal Party accused of ‘appalling’ approach to privacy with misleading website.

Battle for Warringah

Angela McCormack reported, “It’s VERY likely that former PM Tony Abbott has his seat of Warringah in the bag for the upcoming election. He’s held it for 22 years, the locals love him, and it’s a staunchly blue-ribbon electorate. But he’ll have to swat away a growing number of statistically-doomed underdogs before he seals the deal.”: Meet the student taking on Tony Abbott (and James Mathison).

Action on climate change

John Englart reported, “The latest Vote Compass data on carbon pricing and climate change shows that Australians want more action on climate change and back carbon pricing. Some 63 per cent of Australians want carbon pricing back and 74 per cent support more government action on climate change. But Coalition voters remain split on carbon pricing.”: Support for carbon pricing at 63 percent, vote compass finds.

ABC News 24: Voters want government to do more about climate change, Vote Compass finds.